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There is a similar lowering of voices-and turning inward-elsewhere in New England. One sign is the sharp decline in the number of letters to the editors of newspapers. Said Roger Linscott, associate editor of the Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Mass.: "It's not apathy. People are involved in public affairs, but it's all local, at-home stuff." Town meetings in rural Amherst, N.H., have drawn overflow, boisterous crowds to debate how to limit the community's growth. Hundreds of demonstrators have virtually halted plans to build a nuclear power plant at Seabrook...
Since 1970, TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter has been covering the world of Henry Kissinger. His assessment of the man who reshaped U.S. foreign policy...
...center of the turmoil was New York magazine. Murdoch's peppery new editor, James Brady, 48, fought his way through snow and ice on Monday morning to find his office scarcely less chilling. There to greet him was a sheaf of resignations. Departing were not only the magazine's creator and editor, Clay Felker, but also Design Director Milton Glaser, Managing Editor Byron Dobell (who agreed to stay through a brief transition) and 20 other editorial hands, including such notables as Tom Wolfe, Financial Writer George ("Adam Smith") Goodman, Washington Reporter Richard Reeves, Ms. Editor Gloria Steinem, Press...
Some regard Brady as only an interim editor, sent in to keep New York functioning until Murdoch finds the editor he wants. But Brady is busily making plans to refocus the magazine on local coverage. Says he: "This is to an important degree a service magazine, not a magazine of national affairs. It's a guide on how to live better in New York...
...staffers have chosen to remain-perhaps because, unlike the writers with contracts and outside assignments, they depend more on their salaries. They also got two reassuring visits from Murdoch himself. Said Financial Writer Dan Dorfman: "I'm accustomed to writing pieces that offend advertisers and friends of the editor. Will I still have that same freedom?" Said Murdoch: "Write about anything you please, even me, but just be sure you're right...